EUDAT B2SHARE integration app

Table of Contents

1. Plugin Description - What the plugin does provide
2. Install - How to install the B2SHAREBRIDGE
3. Development - Guide for contributing to the plugin
   1. Frontend development - Guide for frontend building
   2. Testing - Instructions to test the code
   3. Styling - Instructions to check the code quality

Module Description

This owncloud/nextcloud plugin allows the user to directly publish files from his personal cloud store to EUDAT B2SHARE. The user interface of B2DROP is extended with an icon to publish files, and with a table view that shows the last published files. If a user wants to publish a file, this transfer is done via the B2DROP server in the background.

Install

• on your B2DROP server go to the <owncloud/nextcloud>/apps directory

cd nextcloud/apps

• git clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/EUDAT-B2DROP/b2sharebridge.git b2sharebridge

• then install the dependencies using:

make composer

• enable the app on the B2DROP owncloud/nextcloud web interface or in the console with:

sudo -u <www-data/your webserver user> php occ app:enable b2sharebridge

• configure a B2SHARE endpoint in the B2DROP owncloud/nextcloud admin menu

Development

There are no formal requirements to participate. If there are questions, feel free to contact the authors mentioned in AUTHORS.md

Frontend development

The app is implemented with Vue.js. Build the frontend code after doing changes to its source in src/ which requires to have Node and npm installed:

• 👩‍💻 Run make dev-setup to install the frontend dependencies
• 🏗️ To build the Javascript whenever you make changes, run make build-js

To continuously run the build when editing source files you can make use of the make watch-js command.

Testing

In order to run tests you have to install nextcloud.

Unit testing

Make sure you have the dependencies installed with make composer.

warning

If you don't put the b2sharebridge-app at nextcloud/apps you need to

• Set the NEXTCLOUD_ROOT variable to your nextcloud directory, for example export NEXTCLOUD_ROOT=/var/www/nextcloud

You can now run all tests with make test, which runs unit and integration tests.

Manual (Frontend-) Testing

For manual testing you need to install the b2sharebridge-app and enable it in the nextcloud server.

warning

If you don't put the b2sharebridge-app at nextcloud/apps you need to

• Create a softlink at nextcloud/apps with ls -s <your dev directory> b2sharebridge in order to install the app
• You may also need to change the owner of the app-files with sudo chown -R <webserver-user:webserver-group> </path/to/your/>b2sharebridge. Alternatively set the user of your webserver to your own user. This is NOT recommended for your production system!

Style and style-fix

In order to keep the quality of the app higher there are options to automatically check your files for styling issues and other code smells:

• make phplint to show and make phplint-fix to automatically fix some php issues
• make stylelint to show and make stylelint-fix to automatically fix some css, scss or vue issues
• make lint to show and make lint-fix to automatically fix some javascript issues

Additional Notes

You need to at least use charset utf8mb4 (or similar) in your database, because the fetched communitites contain the 🔒-emoji in their name. Otherwise this causes mysql (or similar) to show a question mark ? instead. This bug only causes visual issues.